Saturday: Churchville-Chili Over Hilton in Overtime

April 23, 2016 -

After a close game throughout, the Saints took control at the end of the game and defeated Hilton at the very end of the first overtime period. Pittsford remained undefeated with an 11-7 win over Cazenovia. Schroeder was a 10-8 win over Spencerport and Fairport lost a tough one against JD. Other winners included Mynderse, Geneva, Thunder, Pal-Mac, and Wayne.

--SPORTSFIVE REPORT: Churchville-Chili remains one of five undefeated teams in Section Five with their overtime win over Hilton, 13-12. The Cadets led for most of the game before Churchville-Chili took control in the fourth quarter. With an exception of two minutes in the first quarter, Hilton led or tied for the first 38 minutes. Hilton scored the first two goals in under two minutes with goals from Hunter Duford and Zeus Doser. The Saints came back and took their early lead with three goals (two from Jason Tebo and one from Corey Yunker). Yunker finished the game with 3g-5a to lead the Saints. The Cadets quickly took back the lead with goals from Duford (2), Doser and Zachary Mitrano. The Cadets led 6-3 with 10:53 left in the second quarter.

The Saints slowly chipped away the lead through the second and third quarters eventually tying the game with 7:28 remaining in the third quarter. Austin Orengo assisted Jacob Buck for his long goal of the game (he finished with 1g-3a). Hilton re-doubled their efforts and scored back to back to lead 10-8. Doser scored his third and Mitrano scored his second for the Cadets. Churchville-Chili scored the last two goals of the third quarter to tie the game again (10-10).

In the fourth quarter, Yunker scored his last goal to take the first lead for the Saints since early in the first quarter. Hilton tied the game just over a minute later with Duford`s final goal of the night. Churchville-Chili took another lead three minutes later with junior Patrick Sheridan scoring his second goal of the night with an assist from Yunker. The final Cadet goal of the game was scoring with a hard drive to the cage by Michael Richardson. Richardson forced overtime with 3:04 remaining in regulation.

Both teams had opportunities in the final three minutes but neither could take the lead. Hilton won the draw in overtime and had first shot at the cage. The Cadets had multiple shots on Churchville-Chili goalie Matt Cobb, but could not capitalize. He finished with nine saves for the Saints, including a save in overtime. The Saints took control of the ball and went to offense. Sheridan scored his third goal of the night and second in a row to give Churchville-Chili the win as time expired in the first overtime period. Both team`s next game is next Tuesday with the Saints playing Brockport and the Cadets facing Penfield.

--SPORTSFIVE REPORT: In out of section play, Jamesville-Dewitt (Section III) defeated Fairport 8-5 to remain undefeated this season. This was the first game this season where the Rams were held under 10 points and only the second time they did not defeat their opponents by at least 9. Only three Rams made the scorebook with Griffin Cook and Ryan Archer scoring three goals apiece and Andrew Barclay adding one (one goal was unattributed). Conversely, Fairport had four different scorers with only Reese Burek scoring two goals.

The game was close for three quarters before the Rams took off. They scored five of the last six and the Red Raiders could not keep pace. Fairport led 4-3 at halftime before JD took off. The game was tied 5-5 with 8:45 left in the final quarter before JD scored the final three goals. In the cage for Fairport, Tyler Wetzel finished with 13 saves.

--SPORTSFIVE REPORT: Three man-up goals during a non-releasable penalty gave Schroeder a three goal lead late in the second quarter and that was enough to hold off Spencerport`s late advance. The Warriors won 10-8 over the Rangers. The game was neck and neck before the scoring streak. Both teams alternated scoring in the first and early second quarters with Spencerport holding a 3-2 lead with 5:56 remaining in the second quarter. Jared Griffin scored with 5:05 remaining to tie the game before Schroeder scored goals with 3:20, 2:51 and 2:35 remaining. Griffin scored two of those goals with Blake Balcaen scoring the third. Schroeder led 6-3 at halftime.

Spencerport scored back to back to start the third quarter and cut the Warrior lead to one. Rocco Santillo and Owen VanWie scored for the Rangers. The Rangers never got closer than one with Schroeder scoring the next four goals; including two more goals for Griffin. The Warriors led by five with 5 minutes remaining in the game. Spencerport scored the last three goals to make the score appear closer.

The Rangers had a good game at the face-off with VanWie finishing 14/20. He also led his team in ground balls with 9. In the cage for Spencerport, Connor MacKenzie recorded 16 saves.